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Here's a photo of it: This is SPI dark red with 4 coats of universal clear. The primer you see in the buff through is red epoxy. I sprayed this car all the way back in December of 2021 and am just completing the sanding and buffing of it all now. So this is fully cured clear I would...

I thought you guys might enjoy this video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C-GK2C&v=802440033787963 Any of you using an estimeter? If so, I hope you have re-calibrated it. I have to admit, I'm old enough to remember the $29.95 price he advertised.

I panel painted my 69 GTO a few months ago and I am now ready to start the assembly. When I removed the doors for painting, they were perfectly aligned so I pulled the pins to remove. The pins are new and unpainted and the hinge springs are blasted and still bare metal. Do I prime and...

I installed partial patch panels on my GTO project on the quarters at the wheel well openings. I butt welded them in and finished them off the best I could with a spoon, dolly and shrinking disc. Very challenging since the inside access for a dolly is not good. I sprayed 2 coats of epoxy...

I'm about 99.9% sure right now I am going to choose SPI Dark Red for my '69 GTO convertible project. Even though I bought this car with all the correct parts to restore to original, I'm doing enough upgrades to it to that it is it a restomod. The car was originally Liberty Blue and came to me...

I'm restoring an old Radio Flyer wagon for my neighbor. My intention is to paint the handle and axles with black SPI epoxy and then with Universal clear. I have some old Universal clear but no activator for it. But I do have some fairly fresh 2103 activator on hand. Will it work?

Yep, my beloved car that I spent so much time on giving it a show quality paint job a couple of years got hail damage on it. It was in my garage with the cover on it at the time too! I opened the door since it's an uninsulated metal garage and it was a 106 that day. There was absolutely now...

I have a 3/4 full can of 2103-4 slow activator dated 1/2018. I just opened and looked in the can with a small but powerful flashlight. It looks good to me. Totally clear all the way to the bottom. It's been stored in my shop which probably doesn't drop down any lower than 50-55 in the winter...

I've got a gallon jug of waterborne W&G remover with a 2017 date and a little less than half full. It looks somewhat yellow. I don't remember it having a color when I bought it but maybe I'm not remembering right. Has it gotten contaminated somehow? Should I discard it and buy a new gallon?

My brother has a 2017 Corvette which is silver. A while after he bought it, he noticed that the paint on his front bumper didn't match the hood and fenders very well. Mostly it's the metallics look different. Upon inspecting close it was evident that the bumper had been repainted. There...

My wife gave me a set of California Car Dusters (lg and sm) for Xmas about 15 years ago. They've been in my shop ever since and I've never once used them. I was cleaning the garage today and figured I should probably get rid of them if I'm never going to use them. What's the word on these...

First of all, I bought this genuine '83 Choo Choo SS in 1993. I bought it from the original owner in all original condition. It had just 50K miles on it then and even now it's only about 76K miles. It was black with sand beige interior. In 1998, I changed the 305 out for a '96 LT1 engine with...

I've had some issues with this problem on both my '55 Belair and my '57 Chevy pickup. The Belair is bc/cc. Pro-Spray base with SPI Universal Clear. The '57 pickup is Pro-Spray single-stage. I've had to cut and buff to get them out since the etching is quite bad. I don't know why but I haven't...

I've been a member here a while but I didn't realize there was an area to show off your work. I try not to bother you pros much unless I've got a good question. Anyway, I'm feeling good right now because I finally got my cab painted. (Actually, I should call it my wife's cab because I'm doing...

I'm just about to buy a kit of SEM Pro-Tex bed liner. The kit doesn't come with a gun. I still have the GEO gun I got from Barry. Can I use that for spraying the Pro-Tex? Also, in the instructions for Pro-Tex, it says it can be sprayed over epoxy but it must be cured and sanded with 180. Can I...

If I put Universal Clear over the white epoxy, how would it hold up in the sun? Probably seems like a weird question but I kind of like the SPI white epoxy color and was thinking about it for bumpers, grille and wheels on an old truck I'm working on. I'm guessing that it probably go...

I bought 2 gallons of bedliner last year and only used one of them. The other gallon is still unopened. What's the shelf life of it, I don't want it to go to waste. I've got a trunk battery box I'd like to spray with it for texture. If I open the gallon and use a pint, will that shorten the...

I just wanted to make a comment here. After blasting perfectly clean, I've been painting some small parts like wheels, traction bars, control arms, etc, etc with black epoxy. I've been spraying it reduced at 1:1:1/2, with a touch-up gun and I've been putting on 4 wet coats about 30 minutes...

Bummer. The regular yellow weatherstrip adhesive (Dynatex brand) attacked and lifted the Universal Clear on my door. The clear was shot 10 days before I installed the weatherstrip and my shop has not ever dropped below 60 at night. Anybody else run into this? What glue should I...

I'm using turbo primer for the first time. Can I paint base over sanded turbo primer without using a sealer? Or, should I spray a reduced coat of epoxy on it first? What do you turbo primer users do?